This week’s Imaggeo on Mondays is brought to you by Dmitry Demezhko, who describes how Patomsky crater may have formed and why it keeps scientists puzzling… Patomsky crater, also known as Patomskiy crater or the Patom cone, sits in the Irkutsk Region of Eastern Siberia. The site is a curious cone with a crater at …[Read More]
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Life and death, and money
Mel Auker is an Earth Sciences PhD student in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. A mathematician by trade, Mel’s PhD uses numerical approaches to better understand past, present, and future global volcanic hazard and risk. The recent tragedy at Sinabung volcano, Indonesia, bought some interesting thoughts to light amongst some …[Read More]
Guest Blog: Softer on the curves
Siân Hodgkins graduated from Cardiff University with a Master’s degree in Environmental Geoscience. Siân took part in a Geology for Global Development placement over Christmas, writing a literature review on landslides in the Ladakh region of the Himalayas. The report will soon by published on our website (open access). Here, Siân writes about her own trip to Ladakh …[Read More]
The unexpected seismic hazard
Public places such as airports are often designed to withstand strong earthquakes particularly in modern cities that are prone to earthquakes. When the ground shakes people have to be careful from objects falling off walls … or eagles falling from the roof! Two large eagles each having a wingspan of 15 meters and weighing 2 tonnes were …[Read More]
Monday paper: Soil organic carbon dynamics of black locust plantations in the middle Loess Plateau area of China
Lu, N., Liski, J., Chang, R. Y., Akujärvi, A., Wu, X., Jin, T. T., Wang, Y. F., Fu, B. J. 2013. Soil organic carbon dynamics of black locust plantations in the middle Loess Plateau area of China. Biogeosciences 10, 7053-7063. DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-7053-2013 Abstract Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the largest terrestrial carbon pool and sensitive to land use and cover change; its dynamics are critical for carbon cycling in …[Read More]
Friday Photo (114) – Aggregate Mining
Aggregate Mining in Rio San Francisco (Panajachel, Guatemala) The Rio San Francisco flows through Panajachel, one of the largest towns around Lake Atitlan, into the lake. In the current dry season, there is very little water, and you can see mining for aggregates occurring. Credit: Joel Gill (2014)
10 Minute Interview – Finding the right path
It turns out, I’m not so great at keep the promises I make our blog readers… I AM working on the next post for the Making the most of your PhD series. In the mean time, this 10 minute interview actually fits the theme of the Making the most of your PhD series quite well. …[Read More]
Science Snap (#18): Tragic Sinabung Eruption
James Hickey is a PhD student in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. A geophysicist and volcanologist by trade, his PhD project is focussed on attempting to place constraints on volcanic unrest using integrated geodetic modelling. Last Saturday (1st February 2014) an eruption at Sinabung volcano in Indonesia claimed the lives of …[Read More]
Geosciences Column: Using tall trees to tot up tropical carbon
Forests in the tropics account for about half the above-ground carbon on Earth and as the trees grow older they are capable of storing more and more. In fact, their carbon-storing potential is so large that they are increasingly being viewed as a means of mitigating climate change. Take, for example, the United Nations effort to …[Read More]
GfGD Conferences – Help Us!
Do you remember our National Conference, in October 2013? It was a great event, gathering over 150 people from across the UK and beyond to explore how geologists can help fight global poverty. Don’t forget, you can find a series of photographs from the event on our Facebook page. Whether you attended this event or …[Read More]